Shyam’s Shangrila
Shyam Bahadur Panday’s hotel was a favourite haunt of the early expatriates in Nepal
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Ambica Shrestha (1933-2024)
The long and fearless life of a crusader for cultural preservation and women's rights in Nepal
Nepal loses its foremost security analyst
In 1991, as the editor of Deshantar weekly, I was part of a visiting team of journalists accompanying Prime Minister Girija Prasad Koirala on...
Paul Farmer on my mind
When we were in 11th grade, my friends and I wanted to bring healthcare services to an impoverished village near Pokhara, my hometown....
Rajkumar Shakya, 1967-2021
Raj Kumar Shakya who died of Covid-related complications in June at age 54 was the world’s foremost repoussé sculptors, excelling in the craft of...
A Nepali on a UN mission
To be posted in regions of political instability seems to have been the calling of Manoj Basnyat’s life. As a United Nations...
A postcard from Jan Morris 1926-2020
Remembering the last surviving foreign member of the first expedition to climb Mt Everest in 1953
Poet of the Nepali soul
When national poet laureate Madhav Prasad Ghimire died on Tuesday 18 August at the age of 101, it marked the end of...
The wild and wonderful Bill Gavin, 1936-2020
From a life of Himalayan white water rafting, to motors, music and movies
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